The Early Development Network in Nebraska has a 3 prong approach to delivering high quality Early Intervention Services: 1) The Routines Based Interview, 2) Functional IFSP Outcomes, 3) Routines-Based Home Visitation. The routines based home visitation training that our team just participated in gave us the tools needed to have: child and parent-focused intervention, strengthened relationships between parents and professionals and it is used to build parent competencies for enhancing parent-child interactions. It gave us the "curriculum of the home" to base EI services on. Our providers are required to provide 2 videos that will be reviewed by Early Development Network to ensure we meet fidelity and will be required to submit annual videos to ensure they maintain fidelity. This is on top of their annual video submission of them completing the Routines Based Interview for fidelity review.
While only a small percentage of many of our Early Intervention providers' caseloads are birth to three year olds, they are required to participate in much more training and demonstrate fidelity to best practices than the rest of the 3 to 21 year olds caseload. Congrats to them on completing this training!
